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Translink UK firm BHP Corporate Finance is delighted to have acted as lead advisor to Greenhous Group (Holdings) Limited (“Greenhous”) on the disposal of Smart Fleet Solutions (“SFS”) to the highly acquisitive, online used car dealer Cazoo.
Translink Corporate Finance announces the acquisition of 51% of the shares in IP-Agency Finland Oy by BHG Group, the largest consumer e-commerce company in the Nordics.
IP-Agency is a leading online company specialising in products for sports and leisure. The proprietary branded products are sold mainly in Finland, Sweden, Belgium, the DACH region and the US. IP-Agency has increased its annual sales by 600% during the past two years to EUR 19 million, with an EBITDA margin of over 25 percent. The various webstores receive about 900,000 hits each month.
CECOP announced that it has acquired The Alliance Buying Group (“ABG”), achieving an important milestone in the company’s growth strategy in the US market: its second acquisition. CECOP now serves more than 2,000 independent optical stores and optometry practices with great deals and profit optimizing services. Translink acted as advisor to the buyer.
Visy is a leading global supplier of software for image recognition and automation based on AI and deep learning solutions in the transportation infrastructure market. Sensebit, together with its subsidiary Trafikia, is the Nordic market leader in traffic data collection and analysis.
Translink Corporate Finance advises the Villmann Group on the sale of their shares in Fahrzeugwerk Brandenburg ("FWB"), Waggonbau Altenburg ("WBA") and Fahrzeugwerk Niedersachswerfen ("FWN") to INVEHO, a portfolio company of the French Ermewa Group.
Translink Corporate Finance has advised Cortex Technology, a Danish company and one of the global leaders in medical devices for cryotherapy and dermatology on their sale to Vækst Invest. Cortex Technology's products are distributed worldwide – mainly through local suppliers.
Cortex Technology has profits of more than 1 mill € with strong growth, which is expected to continue through the introduction of several new products. The main product lines are:
Translink Corporate Finance advised Diploma PLC, a UK listed international group of companies supplying specialized technical products and services. Diploma operates globally within three sectors: Life Sciences (Healthcare), Seals, and Controls. In Healthcare Diploma has 7 companies with a total revenue of approx. 175 mill. € with an adjusted operating profit above 20%.
AlfaNordic is a Danish company which is specialized in consultancy services to the Pharma, Biotech, Medical Device, Food, Cosmetics and Medicinal Cannabis industry. The company is a GxP-advisor covering the full-service package including validation, QC/QA, regulatory affairs, project management etc. The subsidiary AlfaNordic Academy is active in training and education of clients. The company employs more than 100 persons.
RESA Power, LLC, a market leader in power systems electrical testing, transformer services and life extension solutions for power distribution equipment, has announced the acquisition of Western Utilities Transformer Service, Inc. Translink acted as advisor to the buyer.
Trinity Consultants, Inc. (“Trinity”), a portfolio company of Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (“LLCP”), announced today that it has acquired SESPE Consulting, Inc. (“SESPE” or the “Company”). Translink acted as advisor to the buyer.
